As weird as it looks, it seems that the placement might facilitate “simply” cutting the new nose free from the nostrils to the bridge, leaving the bridge connection intact, and rotating it down to the traditional nose location.

"The forehead is a traditional place to get extra tissue from torebuild a nose," says Shehan Hettiaratchy, Chief of Plastic andReconstructive Surgery at the Imperial College Healthcare NHS, who theBBC quoted as an expert on the matter.

The use of tissue bridges to reconstruct the nose was pioneered by the French who created new noses for men that had lost their noses in sword duels. The flap of skin was from the forearm, and the arm was lashed to the patients face for a couple weeks.